US EditionTrump threats and Bukele model on crime back Latin American progressives into corner
Progressive leaders adopt tough gang policies amid rising violence and U.S. pressure; Guatemala recorded 82 homicides in 2025, down from 6,656 in 2015, officials said.
- Latin American progressive leaders face pressure from Trump administration and voters over crime due to success of El Salvador President Bukele's punitive crackdown on gangs.
- Trump has taken confrontational approach toward Latin America, declaring criminal groups as terrorist organizations and suggesting Bukele's model for the region.
- Guatemala's President Arévalo declared state of emergency after gang violence against police, curtailing rights to combat 'terrorism' as Bukele did.
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By Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN en Español President Donald Trump imposed from the first day of his second term a renewed U.S. attention in Latin America as it was not seen in decades, in a strategic turn that opts for coercion, with a clear preference for the stick rather than carrot, in front of a region that maintains difficulties to present a tuned response.The change, characterized by massive deportations, a confrontation with non-aligned leaders a…
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Trump threats and Bukele model on crime back Latin American progressives into corner
Latin American progressive leaders are increasingly being backed into a corner on organized crime by pressure from the Trump administration and their own voters, who point to the results from El Salvador's war on gangs.
MEXICO CITY-Progressive leaders in Latin America are increasingly cornered by the issue of organized crime due to pressure from the government of President Donald Trump and his own voters, who point to the results of the war against the gangs of the president of El Salvador.The yearning for a more forceful response to endemic problems has grown for years in Latin America.The punitive tactics that El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, launched a…
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